SOME REASONS FOR RAISING RABBITS 13 
of age. The rabbit is a rapid grower and very 
prolific and is, in fact, the only animal known 
to us that reproduces its own weight so 
rapidly. 
It is possible, even when very conservative, 
to produce as much as 400 pounds of rabbit 
meat on a space of ground only 3 x 6 feet in 
size within one year. The rabbit does not 
require large houses and runs or pastures as 
do other forms of live stock. In fact, the 
domesticated rabbit is a hutch rabbit and it 
really does better under confinement in the 
proper kind of a hutch than it does where it 
has more liberty. 
Being a rapid grower and favoring certain 
kinds of feed which is comparatively cheap, 
even under high prices for all feedstuffs, it is 
possible to produce a pound of rabbit meat 
for a very small figure. One breeder, who has 
made quite a success of raising rabbits entirely 
for meat purposes, tells me that he can pro- 
duce a pound of rabbit meat as cheaply as he 
can produce one egg from his poultry. This 
